On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:24 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > What do you use ssh for? > > Accessing remote systems, for any number of reasons. > > If you need to make a change to a big file on a remote web server, which > is better: > > - ssh in and edit it with $EDITOR of choice > - transfer the file to your local system, edit it, and transfer it back Or: - Use a web page editing tool which knows how to invoke ssh or ftp or webdav or whatever? Note that one could use GEdit (since it supports SFTP via gnome-vfs) as a basic web page editing tool now if we just fixed the bug that it refuses to save files over gnome-vfs (because the maintainers are on crack). > Also, since there's no way to set SELinux attributes via FTP or SFTP, > the only way to do so is via ssh. Yes, that's a bug. One I personally want to see fixed (for SFTP at least). > And these are _not_ just system administrator things; we've got a few > thousand users that do things like this Right, but what you are doing is working around the lack of a good web page editing tool, which is a bug. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
